Great Scenes from 2009

[Watashi]

Again, spoiler if necessary.

Up

Opening Montage
"It is funny because the squirrel gets dead."


Inglourious Basterds

Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France
Shoshanna's face laughing in the smoke-filled theater


Watchmen

Opening Credits
Manhattan's backstory


Observe and Report

Final 5 minutes


The Hurt Locker

Cereal Aisle
Sniper Battle


(500) Days of Summer

Expectations vs. Reality
Hall and Oates

[ledfloyd]

i agree with most of yours. also:

A Serious Man

The Goy's Teeth


Summer Hours

The Last Scene


Adventureland

Roman Candles


Love Exposure

Training Montage
The Beach


Goodbye Solo

The Ending

[soitgoes...]

Bad Lieutenant
The whole "His soul is still dancing" scene.

Thirst
Flying off the rooftops.

Ponyo
The opening sequence

[Fezzik]

Up

Carl reading Ellie's Adventure Book at the end


Avatar

Jake's first flight on his Ikran


The Princess and the Frog

"Friends on the Other Side"
Evangeline!


Nine

"Be Italian"
"Take it All"


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The forest brawl


Inglourious Basterds

Landa and Shoshanna eating pastry


Good call on the others, Wats..you mentioned most of the others I could think of off of the top of my head.

[number8]

"You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F-Star-Star-CUNT!"

I guess that's more quote of the year than scene of the year.

[Adam]

Thirst
Flying off the rooftops.

This is an especially great call for a movie I wasn't crazy about. The effects are wonderful, but what really sells this ruckus is the expression on her face

[NickGlass]

The Hurt Locker

Cereal Aisle



The Hurt Locker is not on my Top 10 films of the year, but the this scene is, undoubtedly, my favorite of the year. Then again, I have such a weakness for supermarket scenes in any film.

[Adam]

Oof, that supermarket scene was such a clunker for me. Almost as bad as any of the stuff with that kid who sold him the DVDs. I'd say about half of The Hurt Locker's action set pieces work as pure, edge-of-the-seat, top-notch suspense sequences, but exactly zero of its tired ruminations on the toll war takes on individuals works as anything

If you're gonna pick a scene from The Hurt Locker, yeah, pick the car bomb diffusion or the one where that guy has a million explosives strapped to him. Don't pick stuff like Jeremy Renner's Silkwood shower and whatnot

[number8]

Oh my god, Nick, Fish Tank was abysmal.

[Adam]

Fish Tank was great!

And actually, if that counts as a 2009 film, then Katie Jarvis' final dance might be my favorite scene from 2009

[ledfloyd]

i do feel like the stuff with the DVD kid is the hurt locker's weak point, but i like the cereal aisle scene.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Bad Lieutenant
- Cage hallucinating iguanas scored to motown.

[Bosco B Thug]

Inglourious Basterds - I think I'll take the bar scene. I love Diane Kruger flittering into the frame when she first greets the Basterds.
Antichrist - The Three Beggars congregate.
Bad Lieutenant - Eva Mendes tells Cage she's gonna be rehabilitated.
Tokyo Sonata - Final scene

[number8]

When Cage stops the young couple coming out of the club.

"Daddy everr mollllllesssssssst you?"

[NickGlass]

Tokyo Sonata - Final scene

If Kurosawa resisted cutting to multiple amazed faces in the audience, I would agree. Simplicity would have done that scene wonders.

(I'll get to Fish Tank and The Hurt Locker's cereal aisle soon later)

[Boner M]

Agreed w/ Basterds, Serious Man & Tokyo Sonata choices

Also...

35 Shots of Rum - "Nightshift"
Crank: High Voltage - The psychiatrist interlude
Bright Star - Abbie Cornish feeling the breeze from outside in her bed
The Box - library
Drag Me to Hell - parking lot
Mother - final scene
Humpday - Monologue about the video store clerk
Julia - Swinton proposes her scheme for the first time

[Pop Trash]

(500) Days of Summer

Expectations vs. Reality
Hall and Oates


Whatever flaws this movie has, I agree these were great scenes.

I also like that scene with the bumper cars in Adventureland set to The Cure.

[Spinal]

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[Stay Puft]

Summer Hours

Frédéric walks through the final museum exhibit.


Tokyo Sonata

Ryûhei meets that guy who always calls himself on his cellphone.
Ryûhei runs into his wife at the mall.


Big Man Japan

Daisatô politely asks a baddie to copulate somewhere else.
The producers run out of money.


A Town Called Panic

Cheval's morning routine.


Birdsong

The three wise men wander off into the distance, having lost their way. They disappear over a hill. Eventually they return, wandering back towards the camera and disappearing again. I have no idea how long this scene/shot lasts, but it was far and away the highlight of TIFF 08.

[Bosco B Thug]

If Kurosawa resisted cutting to multiple amazed faces in the audience, I would agree. Simplicity would have done that scene wonders. Does he do this? I don't remember, and I'd agree with you. But hopefully it at least gives off an impression of a long, uninterrupted shot of the performance, because that's how I remember it.

[Spaceman Spiff]

When Cage stops the young couple coming out of the club.

"Daddy everr mollllllesssssssst you?"

Loved it when he started over-moaning and groping her bare ass.

Give the man the oscar.

[soitgoes...]

Tokyo Sonata

Ryûhei runs into his wife at the mall.
Yes.

[MadMan]

*Inglourious Basterds: So many to choose from. But I have to go with the ending. "This just might be my masterpiece."

*The Men Who Stare At Goats: George Clooney spacing out and floating through the sky, while Boston's More Than a Feeling plays in the background.

*Zombieland: A toss up between Bill Murray's cameo and Woody Harrison on the roller coster, blasting away while laughing.

*Where The Wild Things Are: Max sailing away, while the Whild Things wave goodbye and howl at him. Brilliant.

*Observe and Report: Seth Rogan v. tons of cops + Ray Liotta. Hilarious.

[Ivan Drago]

Inglourious Basterds -
The movie theater going up in flames.

Watchmen -
Dr. Manhattan's backstory
Manhattan revealing the Comedian is Laurie's father

Avatar -
Final fight
Any sequence at night

Crank 2: High Voltage
Godzilla Fight
Chelios turning into Ghost Rider and flipping off the camera

Star Trek -
Spock and Kirk mind meld
Final fight
Vulcan's destruction

The Box -
Library sequence
The ending

Where The Wild Things Are -
Max sailing away

2012 -
Escaping California
Yellowstone National Park explodes. Not a tree in the park, not a mountain...YELLOWSTONE. NATIONAL. PARK.

District 9 -
Ending

The Informant!
"So...we....agree?" "YES!"

[Adam]

not my favorites, necessarily, but here are some scenes I really dug from movies nobody's mentioned yet

Lorna's Silence

Lorna meets and dances with the Russian dude she's gonna marry


Revanche

Alex visits Susanne at her home for the first time


Black Dynamite

Shootout at a donut place


You, the Living

A girl dreams about married bliss with her guitarist and a train


An Education

Jenny goes to her first jazz club


I wanted to pick something from Doctor Parnassus, too, but nothing stood out. Really any time Tom Waits or Colin Farrell were onscreen was solid

And it's a bummer that Nick Glass never came back to say something eloquent in Fish Tank's defense. I really loved that movie, but I can't think of anything especially interesting to write in its favor. I do have a few favorite scenes, though

Fish Tank


Mia's last dance with her mom/farewell to sister
Mia kidnaps a child
Mia performs in front of Connor
Mia goes to the audition

[Mysterious Dude]

One moment from Bright Star seems to have stuck with me for some reason:

"I FAILED JOHN KEATS."


Also, from Inglourious Basterds:

"That was the sound of my Walther pointed right at your testicles."

[number8]

Oh, Joaquin Phoenix rapping in Two Lovers.

[Dukefrukem]

Thirst
Flying off the rooftops.


Such a good one.

[ledfloyd]

the final shot of breillat's bluebeard is definitely one that will stick with me.

[Derek]

One moment from Bright Star seems to have stuck with me for some reason:

"I FAILED JOHN KEATS."

:lol:

It's 2009's "I drink your milkshake!"

[ledfloyd]

the diner scene in 35 shots of rum.

[chrisnu]

The Road - opening the basement.

[Fezzik]

A Single Man

Falconer's repeated failed attempts to...

try and find a comfortable position before shooting himself. The sleeping bag was a nice touch.